Sentence examples for present enjoyment from inspiring English sources

It embodies a set of virtues—"learning and scholarship and hard work and thrift and deferment of present enjoyment for future gain"—which, he said, underpins Asia's economic success.

In the words of Lee Kuan Yew, former prime minister of Singapore and a keen advocate of Asian values, the Chinese family encouraged "scholarship and hard work and thrift and deferment of present enjoyment for future gain".On the face of it his claim appears persuasive still.

It also fosters savoring, that is, the capacity to draw pleasure from positive experiences through anticipation, present enjoyment, and reminiscence (Bryant, 2003; Gentzler et al. 2013).

Contrast Locke, for whom such "[t]hings in their present enjoyment are what they seem; the apparent and real good are, in this case, always the same.

It makes entire abstraction of every other human passion or motive, except those which may be regarded as perpetually antagonising principles to the desire of wealth, namely aversion to labour, and desire of the present enjoyment of costly indulgences".

"Our desires," Locke wrote, always "look beyond our present enjoyments and carry the mind out to absent good".

Great music from the still remembered past was presented with enjoyment, eagerness and generosity.

We present for your enjoyment our selection of the best web and mobile events coming up in the UK and Ireland (with the odd wild-card thrown in here and there).

Presented for your enjoyment, the first episode of the animated Legend of Zelda series, which was part of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show! from the late eighties and early nineties.

And more and more brain-blasting, spine-prickling images, culled from half-a-decade's worth of footage taken across the world by the BBC's crack Natural History Unit, presented for our enjoyment in short animal-based meals that rotate every five or ten minutes or so.

Idaho Rivers United alleges that, by allowing the road's transformation into an intercontinental conduit for heavy industry, the Forest Service violated the 1968 Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, which states that certain free-flowing American rivers "and their immediate environments shall be protected for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations".